Wisdom Blog: November 30, 2013....An introduction of the Religious Organization of Friends by a nice person from America."We talk about peace but Quakers act."

       (Mr. Kruskal Hewitt, a Quaker friend, introduce me to the Religious Organization of Friends)
November 30, 2013
Dear Students and Friends
I have traveled to Takanawa near Friend Gakuen and Keio in Mita for about five years.
In this busy days it is very hard to travel all the way from Yokohama to Sengakuji/Takanawa
on Sundays to attend Silence meeting of one hour but it is worth while to meet Mr. Hewitt and learn that Dr. Nitobe Inazou was the member and share his thoughts.
Today I received the FB notice from the British Quakers about their Kindertransport of Jewish children in 1938 to 1939 from Berlin to London of 10,000 children being saved by the action of the Quakers. Remember out of 6 million killed by Nazi, 1.2 million were children.
I am proud to becoming one of them but fill a heavy sense of responsibility.
"We talk about peace but Quakers act."(by George)
Mr. Hewitt is moving to New York, but hope him best wishes. He was a Quaker and I am proud of meeting him here on the hill of Takanawa.
gto

Aoyama lighting Christmas tree

Aoyama G.U. Christmas Tree Lighting, November 29, 2013

Wisdom Blog: November 28, 2013; " Make every decision...."

November 28, 2013
Wisdom Blog
Dear Students and Friends
" Make every decision as if you owned the whole company."
Robert Townsend
US business writer and former president of Avis Rent-a-Car, Inc.
1920-1998
意思決定はいつでも自分が会社を所有しているつもりでせよ。

November 27, 2013;Wisdom Blog: " Leadership cannot be taught..."

November 27, 2013
Wisdom Blog
Dear Students and Friends

" Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned."
Harold Geneen
former CEO of IT&T
1910-1997
リーダーシップは、本当は教えることはできない。　学ぶしかない。

gto

November 26, 2013; Wisdom Blog: "If it's a good idea...."

                                 (Ritchie and Phan, SJC grad.)
November 26, 2013
Dear Students and Friends
Wisdom Blog:
" If it's a good idea...go ahead and do it.
It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission."
Grace Murray Hopper
Rear Admiral US Navy
1906-1992
いいアイデアなら、いいからやってしまえ。
許可を得るより、　謝るほうがずっと簡単だ。

Wisdom Blog:"Getting results through people is a skill that cannot be learned in the class room"

November 25, 2013
Dear Students and Friends
Wisdom Blog:
"Getting results through people is a skill that cannot be learned in the classroom."
J.Paul Getty
US oilman
1892-1976
人を動かして結果を得るということは、教室では真鍋ない技術である。

Command Blog: to the students on November 24, 2013 < Number 8>

November 24, 2013

Dear Students and Friends


I will restart my blogs to communicate with the students to provide  assignments as well as some ideas for thoughts and critical thinking.

One is we are on the eighth topic of writing or presentation.
休日／休暇
休日はどのように取るか
休日の過ごし方
先週末はどのようにすごしたか。今週末はどのように過ごすか。
長期休暇に何をやりたいか。
How do you spend your holiday or long vacation? What did you do last week end? What is your plan for the coming week end?

Two: Remember to study your textbook. For those having a book report, remember to prepare it.

gto

November 17, 2013 St. Joseph Festa and International Boy Scouts Troop One at Berrick Hall(old St. Joe's Dormitory)

November 17, 2013 St. Joseph Festa with former students and International Boy Scouts Troop One.

Old soldiers never die, just fade away with Alma Mater.

November 16, 2013
Old soldiers never die, just fade away with Alma Mater.

Life is 10 percent what you make it...

November 15, 2013
Dear Students and Friends
"Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it."
Irving Berlin
Russian-US songwriter
1888-1989

My first student in International Learning Institute a quarter century ago.

November 14, 2014
Dear Students and Friends
My first student of International Learning Institute came back from Portugal
to visit his parents in Yokohama, Japan.  He was the very first student a quarter a century ago when I left St. Joseph International School to start my own endeavor, International Learning Institute in a garage of my house before moving to Negishi.  He was 13 then but now thirty-eight.
I really appreciate all for what I receive, students and good ones.
He graduated Kanto Gakuin and went to the USA for college then to Italy.  He is a movie director in Portugal now.
It was a happy day.
Discuss about your friend(s).
gto

November 12, 2013
Dear Students
You should do the presentation on the Topic given by
Yokohama Waterworks according to the number
Next would be seven: Daily lives; time you get up,
how you travel to schools, how spend time in school,
how you spend lunch and breaks, a life in a day.
Or you speak on the topics given at the end of the chapter(lesson,unit).
gto

"Great minds have purposes, others have wishes."

November 12, 2013
Dear Students and Friends
"Great minds have purpose, others have wishes."
Washington Irving
US writer
1783-1859
 
Dennis mentioned that even the rich in the USA will study hard to prepare for the next era whereas some overseas Chinese in Japan don't work and live with the rents from the tenants.
It is all right if you are wealthy like the Rockfellows He mentioned why he studied hard and his family story of no three generation will keep the wealth. You must improve yourself through education. You must improve yourself to survive in this competitive world.
Chinese study hard but Russians in the US universities enjoy parties. China and Iran never invaded others in history. He thinks there is a great future in China and Chinese.
gto with Dr. Dennis Loh.

" Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value."

November 11, 2013
Dear Students and Friends
I am back to blogs.

For a while I was out of energy plus stopped to make an additional friend by FB, so just receiving
messages and wait till renewing my new FB approach.
I will start with the pictures of Dennis Loh, 1969 SJC, visited the Yokohama Foreign General
Cemetery where our teachers, the Religious Brothers/Fathers are buried. (visited on November 10, 2013, Sunday).

His appropriate line is: "Try not to  become a man of success but rather to become a man of value."
Albert Einstein
US-Swiss German physicist and Nobel Prize winner in Physics
1979-1955
成功者になろうとするよりも価値ある人間になろうとすることだ。

"Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value."

November 1, 2013; Success is the ability....

November 1, 2013
Dear Students and Friends

"Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."
Sir Winston Churchill
British statesman and prime minister
1874-1965
成功とは失敗を重ねてもやる気を失わないでいられる才能である。

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Yokohama international institute will be in Kanagawa, Yokohama Station neighborhood.
this weekend , December and February I will move the necessary materials/goods/equipment to Gifu.

Soon I will resume to necessary logistics to work on various challenges.
Thank you
George